Whether RBG should have lent her name here, or RBG recused herself on that case, is perhaps a reasonable question. No secrecy there, and no financial benefit to RBG. But Thomas has received thousands and thousands of dollars from someone sitting the AEI's Board, without either disclosing it or recusing himself. |
I've said it before and I'll say it again: in any advanced democracy Clarence Thomas would have already been forced to resign. |
Clearly Clarence Thomas isn’t going anywhere. He will never be impeached and convicted.
However, can we all just take a step back and appreciate that a Supreme Court Justice says that one of his dearest friends is a guy who has a freaking signed copy of “Mein Kampf”? I mean WTAF? That’s seriously messed up. |
America is broken. Thanks, Republicans. ![]() |
The frustrations part is that there is a mechanism to force him to step down. His wife has criminal exposure for J6. There is a pressure point there and it should be pushed.
Until he decides to retire. |
You’re right. Although we are an advanced democracy, we are facing internal threats from traitors within that have prevented us from working effectively. And for the person who insists on having the specific name of a case that was affected: you don’t get it. That’s the whole point of having ethics; literally every decision Thomas has made is now tainted. Every decision. Because he’s shown himself to be an unprincipled jurist. |
What a cop out... Just say you don't have one and keep it moving. |
Maybe you can’t reach Thomas, but you can reach Ginny, you can reach every GOP mega donor trying to buy him off, and you can reach every single family, friend, or clerk he’s talked to in the last two decades. Push everyone around him until it hurts. |
You saying make his life hell until he steps down? |
I'll bet Gorsuch hates Thomas for this; regards him as tawdry, grubby, and mean. |
… why? |
Oh my god. It’s not a cop out. You guys wig out if the relative of a judge votes Democratic and here Clarence Thomas has been groomed by a billionaire and his seditionist wife has been too and we’re just supposed to pretend everything is copacetic. No. That’s why ethics guidance exists, fool; so that people are beyond reproach. Clarence Thomas and his idiot supporters? Beyond help. |
PP here - and it's my contention that we are not an advanced democracy, and this is but one of the signs of that. |
Because Gorsuch seems like he has a stick up his ass and thinks his sh*t doesn't stink. I don't like his politics and often disagree with his judicial reasoning, but he gives off a very patrician vibe. If I'm reading him right, I'll bet he thinks that Thomas's venality is beneath the court. |